Tuesday, September 09, 2008

No Shit Sherlock.

"The Dublin Transportation Office has announced new plans to encourage people to help solve the traffic problem by leaving the car at home more often.

The message is if those who live and work in the greater Dublin area were to use alternative means to travel to work at least once a week, it would go a long way.

As part of the One Small Step Pedometer Challenge over 1,000 employees from 17 firms will be walking some of the world's highest peaks without leaving their offices."

Great! So what are the new plans? Let hear 'em. Does it involve transporter beams? Hover boards?? I walked to the gym to day. My jeans are still soaked. If I was walking to work I wouldn't want to sit around in soggy clothes all day long. And public transport is dandy, except when it's raining, then it gets later and busier and hit and miss. I remember standing at a bus stop and watching buses go by without stopping. Some routes are better than others, but it can be painful to rely on public transport in Dublin's fair city. DId I mention the rain? It rains in Ireland, A LOT. Velly wet it is. Would you walk to work in the rain? Would you be willing to walk BACK from work, after a long day, in the rain.Wonder what these new plans are? What 'alternative means' are they referring to?

26 Comments:

Shebah said...

The kind of boffin who suggests and promotes this kind of idea would usually have a driver, a long wheelbase extra comfy limo with squishy seats and darkened windows(provided free by the state) so he can gloat out at the lumpen proles walking to work in the rain.

If the big yin says it's so it must be.DM Cycling in bad weather is the Devil's smegma, you're hands freeze and your toes too.Plastic tubes like in Futurama? Hmm, maybe the 'metro' will be built before I'm dead and blunderbussed.Medbh, make sure you also get used to carrying their poo for miles and miles looking for a council bin to deposit it in.

Conan, I plan to glide into that office room a la Tom Cruise before he went totally nuts.

They just put a bus shelter in my old neighbourhood of Dublin. I've been waiting 40 years, and now you get one those new things with a roof that's a grand total of 24 inches wide, because we all know rain doesn't fall at an angle.

Is it so hard to implement shelters that, you know, shelter? Dare I say even shelter you from the splash of the buses that don't stop?

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